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# Re: *hash() and binary stuff

- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 08:24:39 PST
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- Cc: moo-cows@parc.xerox.com
- In-reply-to: ThwartedEfforts's message of "Thu, 22 Feb 1996 13:41:07 PST" <9602221546.aa26812@forney.scinc.com>

    ThwartedEfforts writes:
    > Could we consider making the hash functions returning things in octal or the
    > [en|de]code_binary functions (and binary connections) return hex values?
    > This seems to be a weird incongruency.  Or is it too late in the game?

    Well, I think of these as different cases, though perhaps I shouldn't.  I
    figured that you might conceivably want to decode the contents of a binary
    string (though you've got decode_binary() to do it for you, so...) whereas
    there's really pretty little point in decoding the output of *_hash().

    I realize that this isn't a very compelling argument for having one in octal
    and the other in hex, but.

    How many people out there have already written code that would be broken if I
    changed binary strings to be in hex rather than octal?

    	Pavel

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